Honing doesn’t even cost much gold until 1370. What are you spending the gold you are getting on? The game does not give you enough gold to hone, buy all the mats for honing, and buy all the accessories for your character all at once. You have to pick a lane and be patient, or pay real cash.
The you are doing something insanely wrong , till 1370 you spend very little of gold in honning … f2p , 1385+ and i have 130k gold sitting collecting dust (and i used some to but gear for my main ) … Unas , islands , selling extra mats , chaos gates , Dungeos …
make sure you do your gold adventure islands whenever they are up (they show up usually about 3 times a week, check calander to know what days have gold rewards on adventure islands)
that alone should give you enough gold if you aren’t buying mats, if you plan to buy mats tho then you’ll wanna do guardian raids and abyss dungeons on your alts, don’t open chests from the abyss dungeon and try to sell any decent accessories you get and sell leapstones from the guardian raid (if you don’t wanna do the raids that much just only do with rest bonus).
sell unbound leapstones from all guardian raids, do those on all T3 characters (get them to T3, it’s days easy now, between event/ark pass/express/tower)
do sailing coop, buy T3 guardian stones
platinum field ticket is worth over 1k materials atm on EUC
masterpiece collection has hefty gold sums enough for 1370
punika rapports have gold, use tremendous amount of silver we now have to buy rapport from travelling merchants if you have to
adventure islands (once again, coins/pirate coins are still worth some gold)
Everything you do yields gold. Just shift resources around to balance what currency you currently need.